Extremely worrying that EU doctors making plans to leave UK – Ashworth

Jonathan Ashworth MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Health, responding to the British Medical Association’s findings that almost a fifth of EU doctors have made plans to leave the UK, said:

“It is extremely worrying that almost a fifth of EU doctors have already made solid plans to leave the UK following the EU referendum result. On the day the EU Withdrawal Bill returns to the Commons, this shocking news must spark immediate action from the Prime Minister.

“Theresa May must urgently safeguard the future of EU workers and stop treating them as bargaining chips in her reckless Brexit negotiations. Failure to do so seriously risks increasing staff shortages and exacerbating the already dire crisis in our health and care system.”